Does anyone have any inside information on this place? They are just starting up, and I've been shortlisted for an interview. Details will probably be sketchy until they are up and running in Sept, but thought someone might have some gossip to share. Want to avoid an Abu Dhabi University type situation at all costs!

The website isn't that helpful. I didn't really check around that much on the site, but I recall that it was going to be in the university city complex in Sharjah. But, I could be confused - hard as that is to believe, I know.

Shebab

It is another of the many new places with no reputation to work with yet. But, as I always say -- avoid the new places until you find out if they have any idea what they are doing. I would expect it to be like your current spot or even worse. But, I do tend to be pessimistic about new places.

109 pictures of construction in progress --- perhaps they are mostly to appeal to engineering students? A touch dull for the rest of us.

Unhelpful telephone company? Etisalat? You haven't tried to get a phone installed in urban American lately, have you--- Even the Kuwait phone company was more efficient. It is now easier, faster, and cheaper to get a phone installed in any gulf country than in the suburb of a major city in the US with Verizon.

Well, for a place that hasn't even started up yet, the Etisalat U website is far more professional looking than some of the outfits that have been in existance for decades! Furthermore, in all fairness, Etisalat U already exists as the lesser entity of the Etisalat College of Engineering, so it isn't an absolute beginner!

It's all fallen through at Etisalat - potential hires haven't necessarily been informed, but lots of people have been left high and dry, and i guess they have no comebacks on anyone.
That's what i've heard - anyone can back this up?

I've heard the same thing, that Etisalat Uni won't be opening - some new recruits found out 'through the grapevine', but it has apparently now been confirmed (officially?). Don't know if all new staff coming in from overseas have been contacted and told yet. Presumably people already in the country have been told, though of course this is not necessarily the case. This is obviously Etisalat at its best yet! And there we all were thinking this might be a good place to work; a place to rival all the other private unis in the country! Plus ca change...